Bread and toast cutting machine.



P. A. BONDESON.

BREAD AND TOAST CUTTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION 11L13D111AY17,11112.

1,082,926.d Patented 1160.30, 1913.

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Specification; of Lettera Patent.

Patented Mec-. 3d, 1213.

Application led May 1.7, 1912. Serial No. $98,073.

To all whom it may concern p Be it known that I, PETER A. BoNDEsoN, a subject of the King of Sweden, who have declared my intention to become a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and -State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Y Bread and Toast Cutt' Machine, of which out; but the device will also save time in the slicing of bread in hotels, restaurants and .large boarding houses and any other place where a great quantity of bread is to be cut into slices. Y

The object of the invention is to provide a machine of said kind which will cut bread.v

into slices very rapidly, and which may be operated by either hand-power or motive power where the latter is obtainable. l

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a top or plan view of my toast cuttin and bread slicing machine with only one read loaf shown upon it. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the machine on the line arf-a Fig.

y1 with several bread loaves on it. Fig. 31s' i a cross section on the line b-b Fig. 1 of the upper part of the machine. Fig. 4 is a cross section of the cutter shaftv 19 with one cutter -diskand one collap shown as keyed thereon.

Fig. 5 is an insideelevation of the side portion ofc of the frame of the machine, and shows the arrangement of theside grooves and their terminals in all the four corners of the frame. i

Referring to the drawing by referenceA numerals, the framel rests onfour legs 2,

. and is formed with two parallel horizontal side pieces 3, each of which is rovided with` a horizontal groove .4, widen as shown at 5 in Fi 2 and 5. Y

Near each end o the frame is journaled at the ends,

` y two shafts, 6 and 7. 0n, or with, the shaft 6 rotate two pulleys 8, which guide and stretch two endless chains 9; said chains are driven by two rocket-wheels 10, whichare fixed on theshavv 7i Secured to said chains, vor link-belts, by rivets 11 (shown in Fig. 2) are transverse flat vcleats 12, whoseV ends are guided in grooves 4, as bestshown in Fig. 3.

The endless carrier thus formed of chains and cleats orbars is provided. with several transverse rowsA of fingers 13. 4

Across the top of the frame is secured at 12J; a plate 1'5, having a series of parallel slits 16, in which are arranged to rotate a series of sharp-edged thin steel blades 17, 4which are of circular form and keyed at 18 on a shaft`19V and spaced bycollars 20, as shown in Figs, 4 and l. All the cutter blades and 4the collars 20 are firmly clamped to ether between a collar 21 aiiixed on the s laft near one end of it, anda nut- 22 threaded near the other and' of it.

The shaft-'19 is journal'ed in bearings 23 xed on the frame, and is at one end pro-v vided with atixed pulley 24 having a handle 25. From said pulley extends a belt 26, which engages a pulley 27 that is fixed on the shaft 7.v On the latter shaft is also fixed a pulley 28 and a loose pulley 29 which are Yadapted to receive a belt (not shown) fromA any motor or driving machine, so that whenever power is obtainable a belt may be placed on saidpulleys, and where no power is obtainable the machine may handle and belt 26.

In one end of the frame is xed a table 3G, having its inner edge thin, or wedge-shaped, and lprovided with slits 31 for the fingers 13 to pass through. Only a portion of this table is shown, but it may be long enough to hold almost any desired number of sliced loaves pushed uponv it from the machine, until they can be removed therefrom.

In the operation, the shafts 7 and 19 are rotated by any of the means already described and the belt 26 uniting their pulleys.

be operated by the While the machine is running the bread loaves are placed upon the vendless carrier between the rows of lingers 13, aboutwhere the loaf 32 is disposed in the drawing; and as fast aseach loaf is drawn in' under' the plate 15, and along as indicated by loaves 32, 32", 32C, 32?, 32'` and 32t 'in Fig. 2, the next loaf is placed upon the earner, in the space 33 thereof, and so on. Durin the operation eachloaf is held downwar on the carrier by the plate 15, while the fingers 13 move it along 4against andk between the cutter blades 17, which cut it into slices, andthe sliced loaf is then pushed by the fingers up along the inclined portion ofthe table and onto. the level portlonof it, and after the fingers have passed in under the table the lingers coming after `keep on moving the enill@ tire layer of bread onward upon the table 30.v If but a small quantity of bread is to be cut, the machine may be stopped while the operator removes the sliced bread from the table; but if a great quantity is tobe cut, one operator keeps on feeding the machine, and a second operator gathers the slices from the table onto plates or into pans, in which they are to be toasted in 'the baking oven.

What I claim is In a machine of the class described, the combination of a frame, an endless loaf carrier mounted in the frame, a rotary cutter having a series ofcircular cutting blades arranged to slice theloaves as they are carried past the cutter; a stripper arranged to prevent the sliced bread from sticking between the cutters, a Ihoriaontal 'storing table arranged to receive-the sliced bread from the machinegfsaidltable having an upwardly inclined portion with a sharp edge arranged close to the endless-carrier at a 'point lower` than the main table, so as to guide the sliced bread upwardlyand ontothe main portion Vof thetable; said inclined portion having also slits, 'and said carrierl having bread? engagingng'ers by, which to move thel loaves,

Asaid slitsservig as clearings for the fingers lto permit them'to pass through and then lunf PETER Ja;Bg)unisson"'y Witnessestt '1` whereof I aix my signature, 'i 

